Something about this "timelock" sounds suspiciously like an event-loop monitoring somevalue, see Roll your own Event-loop. What I would do, is setup an event loop, and when a page or email notification is sent, set a flag to 1, and start a timer, which will reset the flag to zero after a time period. POE could also be used for this, but Glib is all you need. There are also some "event" modules on CPAN.

But we all approach problems in terms of the tools which we are used to using.....your database idea would work too, but it seems more complicated than it needs to be, to get the job done.

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

In reply to Re: RFC: Time Lock Module Idea? by zentara
in thread RFC: Time Lock Module Idea? by pileofrogs

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